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HELLO EVERYONE! My post will be about creating a technology-enhanced project , the task, and how we made the project technology-enhanced. The Task Our task for this week was to develop a technology-enhanced project for students in the high school prep class. We redesigned and integrated technology into a non-technology-enhanced coursebook project. From the coursebook we are working on, we choose unit 20: Shopping. The project entails creating a poster about a famous bazaar in Turkey during the Ottoman era. Students will, however, create a digital poster as well as an information wall for our project! Students will visit a WebQuest that we designed, and they will complete their task following the steps in the process. Websites regarding bazaars in Turkey were recommended as a source of information. Canva will be used to create the poster, and  Padlet will be used to share information as to their information wall. We made sure to provide comprehensive guidance to students as ...

HELLO EVERYONE! My post is about integrating augmented reality in education , the task, process of designing activity, the technological tools, and the challenges of using augmented reality. What is Augmented Reality? Augmented reality is a method of perceiving digital items and videos in a three-dimensional environment and interacting with them in the real world. It is a way of enhancing reality. The Task Our task for this week was to make Augmented Reality Integrated Teaching Material for high school prep class students.  From the two options presented, we selected to develop an activity about exploring a city abroad. For this task, we were asked to choose a city abroad and introduce 2 or 3 landmarks, a museum, local food with 3D objects or 360 videos, and homework for students regarding their experience in the city.  We chose the magnificent city of Rome to introduce in our handouts. We used visuals from various sources to offer attractions such as The Pantheon, The Colosse...

HELLO EVERYONE! My post is about flipped grammar teaching , the advantages and the disadvantages of it, and the process of making video materials. The Task Our task for this week was to make flipped grammar teaching videos for kids in high school prep classes. For our flipped teaching material, similar to the vocabulary videos, we were asked to teach a grammar point offered in the coursebook. Animation, slides, or any other visuals; quizzes, or other forms of self-evaluation for pupils were also required. Eda, Hilal, and I collaborated on our flipped grammar teaching task during this period.  Flipped Grammar Teaching The most typical application of the flipped technique is in grammar instruction. The theory component of grammar learning is done outside of class time, whereas the practice is done in class. Students get more opportunities to put what they've learned in class into practice by speaking and interacting with one another. Students can select when, where, and how they lea...

HELLO EVERYONE! My post is about flipped vocabulary teaching , the advantages and the disadvantages of it, and the process of making video materials. The Task The next assignment was to create flipped vocabulary teaching videos. My friend and Eda were paired to work on the task. Visuals and voice recordings were requested to present the vocabulary. Quizzes or checkpoints were also requested to be prepared to accompany the content so that students could practice before participating in in-class activities. What are Flipped Vocabulary Teaching Videos? A non-traditional approach to vocabulary teaching is flipped vocabulary teaching. Instruction, which is the theory aspect of learning, takes place at home, while practice, which is the most critical part of learning, takes place in class. Students learn the vocabulary with the lecture videos prepared by the teacher, and when they come to school, this information becomes permanent with practice. Animations, narrations, and graphics are all u...

HELLO EVERYONE! My post is about an approach to language teaching; Language Awareness. What Is Language Awareness? Language awareness is making students learn the language themselves by exploring the linguistic structure. They get conscious about their language acquisition. Thus, it enables students to use the language fluently in an authentic context. Students can work on linguistic data while trying to make sense of the language which is called data-driven learning.   What Is Data-Driven Learning? Data-driven learning is examining the language, not from traditional books but linguistic data, students as researchers. In our case, our students work with Corpus. Corpus is a collection of written texts from magazines, books, newspapers in a particular language. My friend Eda and I have prepared a language awareness task for our students while working on the 11th unit of the coursebook. As for Corpus, students will use Skell as it is appropriate for their age and proficiency levers...

HELLO EVERYONE! My post is about my experience with  wikiing that was given as a task in my educational technologies course. What Is a Wiki? Wiki is a website that every user can add or edit content. It comes from the Hawaii phrase wiki-wiki which means quick. But we shouldn’t forget that wiki is not a dependable source. Everyone from all around the world can add or edit the content hence there can be a lot of distorted information. My Experience With Wiki Our task was creating a wiki page about a book that we read and would recommend. First I signed up for PBworks after getting permission from the site. Afterward, I created a wiki page with the name of the book. On my page, I wrote a summary of the book, the book information, and my critique. All I left was clicking the publish button.  If you are curious you can click here to go to my book review page! I chose the book, Frankenstein since   it is considered the pioneer of sci-fi novels.   In my opinion, it is h...

 HELLO EVERYONE! I am here with a post about podcasting . I will address what it is, the process, and my difficulties. What Is a Podcast? A podcast is an episode series of spoken word digital audio files that a user can download to a personal device for easy listening. (Wikipedia, 2020) In brief: i Pod + broad casting When we could go to school, listening podcast was a beneficial activity to spend time in transportation and learn about various topics for me. But this time, I was the creator ! To grasp the idea, I listened to the examples of the   "60-second idea" podcasts.   After researching the topic, I began to record my speech. It was a delightful process, except that my throat started burning due to the constant re-recording, and it was quite stressful to make it exactly 60 seconds. I recommend using Vocaroo as it is free and effortless. That's how simple  it is! As a pre-service teacher, I will practice podcasting in my classes. Listening to it is beneficial...

  HELLO EVERYONE!   I hope you are doing good. My post is about    21st-century learning   and  how it is significant for education. I want you to imagine ten years from now.  What are you doing?  How do you study? What do you use while studying? Now imagine the same scenario today. I am sure it is quite different. The time passed so fast that everything evolved so quickly.  We live in a bustling world that has improvements simultaneously. Thus in this globalized world, teaching should be improved too according to digital native's needs. The term  digital native  describes a person who has grown up in the digital age (rather than having acquired familiarity with digital systems as an adult, as a  digital immigrant ) (Wikipedia, 2020) . Therefore what we should understand is 21st-century learning. What is 21st-century learning? 21st-century learning refers to improvements in student's skills while teaching them learning con...

HELLO EVERYONE AND, WELCOME TO MY BLOG! Thank you for visiting my blog! I am Sümeyye, an English pre-service teacher.  In this blog, I will post about what a teacher needs for being an up-dated and skilled teacher in the 21st century. W hat sort of technological tools can a teacher use in their class to improve their student's skills and how to integrate them into lessons? I will do my best to improve and share my knowledge with you that will be beneficial for you readers. I am so excited to welcome you to my blog and, I hope you will be excited to explore my blog too!